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Friday, January 17, 2020

White House Accuses the GAO of 'Overreach' Following Its Ukraine Aid Report

In a newly released report, the Government Accountability Office has ruled that the White House Budget Office broke the law when it withheld military aid from Ukraine last summer. Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry against President Trump as the result of a whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump tried to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political opponent Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Trump reportedly agreed to withhold military aid to Ukraine a few hours after that phone call.

"Today, GAO issued a legal decision concluding that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law when it withheld approximately $214 million appropriated to DOD for security assistance to Ukraine," the GAO writes in its report. "The President has narrow, limited authority to withhold appropriations under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. OMB told GAO that it withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent "in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy." The law does not permit OMB to withhold funds for policy reasons.

The White House vehemently disagrees and called the GAO's conclusion an "overreach."

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is this only now coming out? Just sounds too convenient.

Anonymous said...

The only mistake President Trump made was not clearing the obama vermin from all these federal agencies which truth be told could be cut in half and the ones left have the staff cut in half and we the people would be much better for it

Anonymous said...

Obama did the same thing multiple times, but because Trump did it, its suddenly a huge crime, smh